14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
4:09 a.m.
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Paul Guertin wrote:
I would love to see a study correlating the serif
length on 1 with both
the age of the writer and the place he or she learned to write. Most
Europeans write ones with serifs, but while some of them write normal
serifs, others go full CVS receipt and end up with serifs longer than
the character they're seriffing.
I (English-born, Aussie-bred) use s short serif and underline on the "1".
Hmmm... My MacBook puts a dot in the middle of the "0" (zero) and
serifs/underlines the "1" too.
I make spaces visible with a sort of a musical "flat" symbol but with a
short bar through it, write a tab as a short right arrow, and for me it's
always ^C etc (which is how they're echoed).
Part of my background is formal message-passing in emergency
communications, whereby the written message *must* be correct as that will
what will be sent (even spelling and grammatical errors, which used to
irritate me although I am allowed to query the author).
Ahhh... The Tower of Babel when it comes to something that must by
definition be precise :-)
-- Dave (VK2KFU)